32.3817, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/France

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Subject: 32.3817, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/France

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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 22:20:23
From: Rea Peltola [rea.peltola at unicaen.fr]
Subject: Postmodality and the life cycles of modal expressions

Full Title: Postmodality and the life cycles of modal expressions 

Date: 02-Jun-2022 - 03-Jun-2022
Location: Caen, France 
Contact Person: Rea Peltola
Meeting Email: postmodality at sciencesconf.org
Web Site: https://postmodality.sciencesconf.org 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2021 

Meeting Description:

The aim of this conference is to shed light on the late stages in the
evolution of modal items, namely the transition from modal to postmodal
domain, the internal structure of the postmodal category and the possible
remodalization cycles.

The cross-linguistic evolution of modal expressions is described as chain-like
grammaticalization structures where items of different degrees of semanticity
follow one another in a predetermined order. Lexical or otherwise semantically
more concrete elements develop into different types of expressions of
possibility and necessity until they eventually bleach into semantically less
and less specific, abstract markers (e. g. Lehmann 2015). Bybee, Perkins &
Pagliuca (1994) identified paths of development across a set of unrelated
languages for different types of modalities. According to the authors, all
these tracks present an evolution from agent-oriented source meanings through
speaker-oriented and epistemic modalities to subordinate uses.

In van der Auwera & Plungian (1998), these paths were put together and
elaborated into maps consisting of three domains. Premodal domain brings
together lexical source expressions that enter the modal domain, sometimes
through auxiliarization or other changes in grammatical shape. At the other
end, postmodal sphere involves a rather heterogeneous set of desemanticized
elements that no longer carry modal meaning. A famous example are the Romance
future tenses stemming from the latin modal periphrasis ''habere + INF''
(''cantare habeo'' ‘I can/must sing’) which ceased to convey possibility and
necessity when grammaticalizing into a verbal tense (''chanterai'' ‘I will
sing’). Another case in point is the English modal auxiliary ''should'' when
used for marking that the state of affairs deviates from the speaker’s
expectations: ''– Can I get you some coffee? – Strange that you should ask''
(see Celle 2018: 39). At the interface between modal and postmodal domains,
the grammaticalization paths cross, as both possibility and necessity tracks
may lead to certain postmodal meanings. This was one of van der Auwera &
Plungian’s (1998) main arguments for unifying the different paths into a map.
The evolutions described by the map result from semantic processes of
different types: specialization, generalization and extension (metaphor and
metonymy).

These models have ever since inspired further studies, both in typological
perspective and in individual languages. Modality’s semantic map has been
finetuned, elaborated and discussed (e. g. van der Auwera, Kehayov & Vittrant
2009; van der Auwera 2013; Traugott 2016; Georgakopoulos & Polis 2018).
Attention has been drawn to the evolution of non-verbal modal categories, the
areal restriction in certain grammaticalization paths and the crosslinguistic
variation as to the presence and evolution of particular subcategories of
modality (e. g. Traugott 2011; Narrog 2012; Becker 2014). Constructional
approaches have recently undertaken to research the evolution of modal
meanings in patterns where both grammaticalization and lexicalization
processes come into play and as part of developments within networks of
constructions, beyond individual units (e. g. Hilpert 2016; Cappelle &
Depraetere 2016; Hilpert, Cappelle & Depraetere, to appear; see also Schulze &
Hohaus 2020).

Keynote Speakers:

- Martin Becker (Köln)
- Agnès Celle (Paris)
- Heiko Narrog (Tohoku), video conference

Organization:

- CRISCO EA4255 Research center, Caen-Normandy University
- Evgeniya Gorshkova-Lamy
- Adeline Patard
- Rea Peltola

Final Call for Papers:

**Extended submission deadline : December 15, 2021**

Postmodality and the life cycles of modal expressions

2-3 June 2022, University of Caen Normandy

Abstract submission:

Anonymous abstracts of no more than 500 words, excluding references, are to be
submitted by December 15, 2021, via Sciencesconf platform:
https://postmodality.sciencesconf.org. Each abstract will be reviewed by (at
least) two members of the Scientific committee. Notifications of acceptance
will be sent in February 2022. The talks will be 20 minutes long, followed by
10 minutes for discussion. The working languages are English and French.

Full Call for Papers:

This conference focusses on the late stages in the evolution of modal items,
namely the transition from modal to postmodal domain, demodalization, the
internal structure of the postmodal category and the possible remodalization
cycles. For an extended CFP, see the conference website:
https://postmodality.sciencesconf.org

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